Can actress Scarlett Johansson play a role other than that of a secular Jewish straight American blonde?

The answer is: it is not clear. Depending on who Johansson represents on stage or on a screen, he may be committing the crime of cultural appropriation , in clear violation of the criminal code of political correctness.

Cultural appropriation has no clear definition . It is simply the use of cultural elements of a minority or subordinate group by another dominant. The idea was born in 1976, as a derivation of the concept of neo-colonialism. But no one has explained what a minority, subordinate, or dominant group is, or what is a cultural element. In recent years, however, the application of the term has extended to everything imaginable.

One of the most intense battlefields of the front of appropriation in the wars of culture in the United States are the costumes of children on Halloween , the night of October in which the little ones disguise themselves and go out to the street to ask for goodies to the people. The children should not wear redskins, or Asians, or Africans, or Polynesians, or Mexicans. When they grow a little, they will understand that a white person cannot, under any circumstances, wear dreadlocks or afro hair. And then they will have fully absorbed the meaning of cultural appropriation.

And that's where Johansson has been involved in the controversy. In an interview with the As If fashion and style website, the actress has stated that "as an actress, she should be able to represent any person, or any animal, or any tree, because that is my job and those are the requirements of my job".

The media lynching she has been subjected to say that has been such that the actress has quickly accused As If of taking her statements out of context and transforming them into clickbait , an English expression that means something like "bait for click" , and that alludes to the manipulation of headlines and texts so that the online reader clicks on them. Although As If has deleted the comment, the original text of the article has been rescued by other publications, and it is clear that nobody has manipulated anything. It is, therefore, a case of self-censorship generated by political correctness.

Johansson had already been accused of cultural appropriation for representing an Asian in the film adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell comic. Critics reached such a level with his role as a transsexual man in the film Rub & Tub , who had to give up the role last year. It is only one more case of the cultural landscape of the United States, where it sometimes seems that the argument of cultural appropriation is a form of racism and discrimination by the traditional victims of racism and discrimination?

Singer Iggy Azalea has been accused of cultural appropriation because she is a white Australian, not black, who sings hip hop. And Rihanna, who is from Barbados, has been for going out on the cover of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar dressed in a traditional Chinese costume.

Jamaican-American writer Marlon James has defended himself against accusations of cultural appropriation of his latest novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf , which is set in Africa, claiming that he is part of the African diaspora , given that his ancestors arrived in Jamaica as slaves. But that is an argument that demonstrates the elasticity of this concept, and the ease of playing with it in one direction or another. Because James is the son of a Jamaican lawyer and detective, who attended Wolmer's ultra-exclusive private school in Kingston - to which the country's elite goes - and who lives in Minnesota. Having the skin of one color qualifies you to avoid cultural appropriation and use African mythology at your leisure? It's more; Why does James use the genre of the novel, which was essentially created by a Spaniard named Miguel de Cervantes with a book entitled Don Quijote ? Isn't that cultural appropriation?

In the US, you can't even sleep without committing cultural appropriation.

Disney has changed the new benders of The Lion King to be African-American, even though, if we stick to the facts, the lions should speak Kiswahili , Xhosa , Kikuyu , or any American language, not a Philadelphia English like of singer Beyoncé, who gives voice to one of the characters in the movie. Paradoxically, the next remake of an animated film of the studio will be The Little Mermaid , where the main role will be represented by the African-American actress Halle Baley. No one seems to have seen the irony of being a black-skinned person who plays the leading role in a story written by a Danish, Hans Christian Andersen, which could be another sign that cultural appropriation is characterized by being applied with different measuring sticks

Designer Sara Marantz Linderberg has put on sale protective hair fabrics for sleeping, and has been accused by the CNN television network of "repackaging and selling to a white audience" something that was only for blacks: a cultural element of The size of the nightcap. In reality, it is a profoundly murderous criticism that reveals an abyssal ignorance of American culture : until the late 1970s, sleep caps were very popular among white women, who used them to protect their hair. No one who sleeps with curlers, for example, will stop using something to protect the scalp.

Paul Simon Graceland's 1986 album has been accused of cultural appropriation for using South African music, as well as the use of the sitar - an Indian instrument - by the Beatles in the song Within Without You falls into that category, and even the practice of yoga

So we must conclude with an admission of guilt : the author of these lines, that to write this article has taken three coffees (Ethiopian or Yemeni invention) and a tea (Chinese creation) is, most likely, guilty of cultural appropriation to less gastronomic

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